Since 1939, Shell
researchers have been experimenting on vehicles that could make more mileage
per gallon (mpg) of fuel and now annually, since 1985, young engineers and
scientists have been challenged to develop vehicles that can make extreme
mileage on a gallon. Keeping in mind the threats our environment is currently
facing, Shell created a global student competition the Shell Eco-Marathon
competition, inspiring them to not only look for other alternatives of
energy, but also, to improve and optimize the ones that can be found today. This
seventy-nine years old annual competition promotes designing energy-efficient
vehicles for marathon. Young students from diversified backgrounds around the
world participate to build and test energy efficient vehicles that cover
extreme distances with least amount of energy spent.

In Our
University, The College of Engineering gives due importance and
support to project ideas in the fields of energy and innovation. In this
respect, Our college have participated in the prestigious Shell Eco-Marathon
event on two occasions in previous years in 2015 and 2016 in
Manila,Phillipines in the Shell Eco Marathon Asia challenge in the name of ‘Team
Sadarah’ in Battery Electric vehicle category. The past experiences have
encouraged the College of Engineering to select a team consisting of 10
students from different disciplines under the alias of “Team Khanjar” with lot
of aspirations and confidence to take up this engineering challenge.

The team is
on track to design a Gasoline operated energy efficient vehicle to participate
in March 2019, Asia competition. The MoU is already signed with M/s. Shell
Development Oman LLC which provided seed funding of OMR 5000 to help the team.
The overall required budget for this project is 15000 OMR. Al Siraj Holding LLC
has given Platinum sponsor for the Shell Eco Marathon Asia-2019 in which Al
Siraj Holding LLC have sponsored OMR 3000.